Patents by Inventor Gregory A. Lewis
Gregory A. Lewis has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20160149974Abstract: A method for managing information relating to a deployment of changes in order to communicate some or all the information to users includes providing an interface to a plurality of users at a plurality of workstations accessible by one or more of the users, receiving information comprising initiative data corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, the initiative data comprising data relating to a plurality of parameters corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, initiating display of some or all the initiative data corresponding to some or all the plurality of changes, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the deployment of the plurality of changes, the event data comprising change status data indicating a status of at least one of the plurality of changes, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2016Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Shawn Maurice Abrams, John Daniel Davidson, Daniel Douglas Grace, Eric Nathaniel Hunsaker, Gregory Lewis, Jerome K. Licup, Timothy McClellan, Hollie Hayes Newton, Selmer R. Peterson, Christine Roche, William Cather Steincamp, II
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Publication number: 20160149973Abstract: A method for managing information relating to a deployment of changes in order to communicate some or all the information to users includes providing an interface to a plurality of users at a plurality of workstations accessible by one or more of the users, receiving information comprising initiative data corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, the initiative data comprising data relating to a plurality of parameters corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, initiating display of some or all the initiative data corresponding to some or all the plurality of changes, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the deployment of the plurality of changes, the event data comprising change status data indicating a status of at least one of the plurality of changes, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2016Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Shawn Maurice Abrams, John Daniel Davidson, Daniel Douglas Grace, Eric Nathaniel Hunsaker, Gregory Lewis, Jerome K. Licup, Timothy McClellan, Hollie Hayes Newton, Selmer R. Peterson, Christine Roche, William Cather Steincamp, II
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Patent number: 9343678Abstract: Apparatus and techniques for use in manufacturing a light emitting device, such as an organic light emitting diode (OLED) device can include using one or more modules having a controlled environment. The controlled environment can be maintained at a pressure at about atmospheric pressure or above atmospheric pressure. The modules can be arranged to provide various processing regions and to facilitate printing or otherwise depositing one or more patterned organic layers of an OLED device, such as an organic encapsulation layer (OEL) of an OLED device. In an example, uniform support for a substrate can be provided at least in part using a gas cushion, such as during one or more of a printing, holding, or curing operation comprising an OEL fabrication process. In another example, uniform support for the substrate can be provided using a distributed vacuum region, such as provided by a porous medium.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Kateeva, Inc.Inventors: Alexander Sou-Kang Ko, Justin Mauck, Eliyahu Vronsky, Conor F. Madigan, Eugene Rabinovich, Nahid Harjee, Christopher Buchner, Gregory Lewis
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Publication number: 20160104025Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for conserving power during navigation, e.g., user device pointer/cursor navigation, using a fingerprint image sensor, that may comprise processing, via a computing device, fingerprint image sensor data indicative of finger position and movement with respect to a fingerprint image sensor surface in a finger navigation mode to determine if the finger is in a first finger navigation mode; processing, via the computing device, fingerprint image sensor data indicative of finger position and movement with respect to a fingerprint image sensor surface in a finger navigation mode to determine if the finger is in a second finger navigation mode; and transitioning, via the computing device, the fingerprint image sensor from a first power consumption mode to a second power consumption mode, based on detecting a transition from the first finger navigation mode to the second finger navigation mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Erik Jonathon Thompson, Frank Schwab, Anthony P. Russo, Bjoren Davis, Charles Bellman, Gregory Lewis Dean, Philip Yiu Kwong Chan, Jaswinder Jandu
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Patent number: 9305272Abstract: A method for managing information relating to a deployment of changes in order to communicate some or all the information to users includes providing an interface to a plurality of users at a plurality of workstations accessible by one or more of the users, receiving information comprising initiative data corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, the initiative data comprising data relating to a plurality of parameters corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, initiating display of some or all the initiative data corresponding to some or all the plurality of changes, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the deployment of the plurality of changes, the event data comprising change status data indicating a status of at least one of the plurality of changes, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2011Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Shawn Maurice Abrams, John Daniel Davidson, Daniel Douglas Grace, Eric Nathaniel Hunsaker, Gregory Lewis, Jerome K. Licup, Timothy McClellan, Hollie Hayes Newton, Selmer R. Peterson, Christine Roche, William Cather Steincamp, II
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Patent number: 9264323Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a computer node that communicates a report message containing information to a social media server to cause publishing of the information to other computer nodes tracking publishing on the social media server by the computer node. The computer node receives a response message from one of the other computer nodes through the social media server, and operates based on the response message. Related embodiments are directed to another computer node that communicates with a social media server to track information published by report messages from other computer nodes, generates a response message based on the information published by one of the other computer nodes, and communicates the response message to the social media server to cause publishing of content of the response message to the other computer nodes.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: CA, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Lewis Bodine, Don Kleinschnitz, Josef Bodine, James D. Kleinschnitz
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Publication number: 20160034740Abstract: A biometric imager may comprise a plurality of sensor element traces formed in or on a sensor substrate which may comprise at least a portion of a display screen defining a biometric sensing area and forming in-active pixel locations; an auxiliary active circuit formed in or on the sensor substrate on the periphery of the biometric sensing area and in direct or indirect electrical contact with the sensor element traces; and providing a signal processing interface to a remotely located controller integrated circuit. The sensor element traces may form a portion of one dimensional linear sensor array or pixel locations in a two dimensional grid array capacitive gap biometric imaging sensor. The auxiliary circuit may provide pixel location selection or pixel signal amplification. The auxiliary circuit may be mounted on a surface of the display screen. The auxiliary circuit further comprising a separate pixel location selection controller circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2015Publication date: February 4, 2016Inventors: Paul WICKBOLDT, Gregory Lewis DEAN, Erik Jonathon THOMPSON, Steven MOLESA, Jaswinder JANDU, Patrick SMITH
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Patent number: 9208371Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for conserving power during navigation, e.g., user device pointer/cursor navigation, using a fingerprint image sensor, that may comprise processing, via a computing device, fingerprint image sensor data indicative of finger position and movement with respect to a fingerprint image sensor surface in a finger navigation mode to determine if the finger is in a first finger navigation mode; processing, via the computing device, fingerprint image sensor data indicative of finger position and movement with respect to a fingerprint image sensor surface in a finger navigation mode to determine if the finger is in a second finger navigation mode; and transitioning, via the computing device, the fingerprint image sensor from a first power consumption mode to a second power consumption mode, based on detecting a transition from the first finger navigation mode to the second finger navigation mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Erik Jonathon Thompson, Frank Schwab, Anthony P. Russo, Bjoren Davis, Charles Bellman, Gregory Lewis Dean, Philip Yiu Kwong Chan, Jaswinder Jandu
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Patent number: 9196703Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device, such as a GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device, including etching a thermal via into a back-side of a semiconductor substrate and depositing a diamond nucleation seed layer across the back-side of the substrate. The method further includes coating the diamond nucleation with a mask layer and removing mask material outside of the thermal via on the planar portions of the back-side of the substrate. The method includes removing portions of the diamond nucleation layer on the planar portions and then removing the remaining portion of the mask material in the thermal via. The method then includes depositing a bulk diamond layer within the thermal via on the remaining portion of the diamond nucleation layer so that diamond only grows in the thermal via and not on the planar portions of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignees: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy, The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Karl D. Hobart, Tatyana I. Feygelson, Eugene I. Imhoff, Travis J. Anderson, Joshua D. Caldwell, Andrew D. Koehler, Bradford B. Pate, Marko J. Tadjer, Rajinder S. Sandhu, Vincent Gambin, Gregory Lewis, Ioulia Smorchkova, Mark Goorsky, Jeff McKay
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Publication number: 20150314325Abstract: A coating can be provided on a substrate. Fabrication of the coating can include forming a solid layer in a specified region of the substrate while supporting the substrate in a coating system using a gas cushion. For example, a liquid coating can be printed over the specified region while the substrate is supported by the gas cushion. The substrate can be held for a specified duration after the printing the patterned liquid. The substrate can be conveyed to a treatment zone while supported using the gas cushion. The liquid coating can be treated to provide the solid layer including continuing to support the substrate using the gas cushion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2015Publication date: November 5, 2015Inventors: Alexander Sou-Kang Ko, Justin Mauck, Eliyahu Vronsky, Conor F. Madigan, Eugene Rabinovich, Nahid Harjee, Christopher Buchner, Gregory Lewis
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Patent number: 9158958Abstract: A biometric imager may comprise a plurality of sensor element traces formed in or on a sensor substrate which may comprise at least a portion of a display screen defining a biometric sensing area and forming in-active pixel locations; an auxiliary active circuit formed in or on the sensor substrate on the periphery of the biometric sensing area and in direct or indirect electrical contact with the sensor element traces; and providing a signal processing interface to a remotely located controller integrated circuit. The sensor element traces may form a portion of one dimensional linear sensor array or pixel locations in a two dimensional grid array capacitive gap biometric imaging sensor. The auxiliary circuit may provide pixel location selection or pixel signal amplification. The auxiliary circuit may be mounted on a surface of the display screen. The auxiliary circuit further comprising a separate pixel location selection controller circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Paul Wickboldt, Gregory Lewis Dean, Erik Jonathon Thompson, Steven Molesa, Jaswinder Jandu, Patrick Smith
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Publication number: 20150259786Abstract: Apparatus and techniques for use in manufacturing a light emitting device, such as an organic light emitting diode (OLED) device can include using one or more modules having a controlled environment. The controlled environment can be maintained at a pressure at about atmospheric pressure or above atmospheric pressure. The modules can be arranged to provide various processing regions and to facilitate printing or otherwise depositing one or more patterned organic layers of an OLED device, such as an organic encapsulation layer (OEL) of an OLED device. In an example, uniform support for a substrate can be provided at least in part using a gas cushion, such as during one or more of a printing, holding, or curing operation comprising an OEL fabrication process. In another example, uniform support for the substrate can be provided using a distributed vacuum region, such as provided by a porous medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2015Publication date: September 17, 2015Inventors: Alexander Sou-Kang Ko, Justin Mauck, Eliyahu Vronsky, Conor F. Madigan, Eugene Rabinovich, Nahid Harjee, Christopher Buchner, Gregory Lewis
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Publication number: 20150163103Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a computer node that communicates a report message containing information to a social media server to cause publishing of the information to other computer nodes tracking publishing on the social media server by the computer node. The computer node receives a response message from one of the other computer nodes through the social media server, and operates based on the response message. Related embodiments are directed to another computer node that communicates with a social media server to track information published by report messages from other computer nodes, generates a response message based on the information published by one of the other computer nodes, and communicates the response message to the social media server to cause publishing of content of the response message to the other computer nodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: CA, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Lewis Bodine, Don Kleinschnitz, Josef Bodine, James D. Kleinschnitz
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Publication number: 20150153923Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed in a first embodiment of the invention as including a non-conductive substrate providing a first surface onto which a user can apply a fingerprint. A fingerprint sensing circuit is applied to a second surface of the non-conductive substrate opposite the first surface. The fingerprint sensing circuit is capable of sensing a fingerprint through the non-conductive substrate. A navigation device is positioned adjacent to (e.g., below) the non-conductive substrate and is capable of being manipulated by the user through the non-conductive substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2015Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Gregory Lewis Dean, Richard Alexander Erhart, Jaswinder Jandu, Anthony Russo, Erik Thompson
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Techniques for Print Ink Droplet Measurement and Control to Deposit Fluids within Precise Tolerances
Publication number: 20150099059Abstract: An ink printing process employs per-nozzle droplet volume measurement and processing software that plans droplet combinations to reach specific aggregate ink fills per target region, guaranteeing compliance with minimum and maximum ink fills set by specification. In various embodiments, different droplet combinations are produced through different printhead/substrate scan offsets, offsets between printheads, the use of different nozzle drive waveforms, and/or other techniques. These combinations can be based on repeated, rapid droplet measurements that develop understandings for each nozzle of means and spreads for expected droplet volume, velocity and trajectory, with combinations of droplets being planned based on these statistical parameters. Optionally, random fill variation can be introduced so as to mitigate Mura effects in a finished display device. The disclosed techniques have many possible applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2014Publication date: April 9, 2015Inventors: Nahid Harjee, Lucas D. Barkley, Christopher R. Hauf, Eliyahu Vronsky, Conor F. Madigan, Gregory Lewis, Alexander Sou-Kang Ko, Valerie Gassend -
Patent number: 9001040Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed in a first embodiment of the invention as including a non-conductive substrate providing a first surface onto which a user can apply a fingerprint. A fingerprint sensing circuit is applied to a second surface of the non-conductive substrate opposite the first surface. The fingerprint sensing circuit is capable of sensing a fingerprint through the non-conductive substrate. A navigation device is positioned adjacent to (e.g., below) the non-conductive substrate and is capable of being manipulated by the user through the non-conductive substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2010Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Gregory Lewis Dean, Richard Alexander Erhart, Jaswinder Jandu, Anthony Russo, Erik Thompson
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Publication number: 20150056763Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device, such as a GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device, including etching a thermal via into a back-side of a semiconductor substrate and depositing a diamond nucleation seed layer across the back-side of the substrate. The method further includes coating the diamond nucleation with a mask layer and removing mask material outside of the thermal via on the planar portions of the back-side of the substrate. The method includes removing portions of the diamond nucleation layer on the planar portions and then removing the remaining portion of the mask material in the thermal via. The method then includes depositing a bulk diamond layer within the thermal via on the remaining portion of the diamond nucleation layer so that diamond only grows in the thermal via and not on the planar portions of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Karl D. Hobart, Tatyana I. Feygelson, Eugene A. Imhoff, Travis J. Anderson, Joshua D. Caldwell, Andrew D. Koehler, Bradford B. Pate, Marko J. Tadjer, Randijer S. Sandhu, Vincent Gambin, Gregory Lewis, Ioulia Smorchkova, Mark Goorsky, Jeff McKay
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Publication number: 20150030217Abstract: A biometric imager may comprise a plurality of sensor element traces formed in or on a sensor substrate which may comprise at least a portion of a display screen defining a biometric sensing area and forming in-active pixel locations; an auxiliary active circuit formed in or on the sensor substrate on the periphery of the biometric sensing area and in direct or indirect electrical contact with the sensor element traces; and providing a signal processing interface to a remotely located controller integrated circuit. The sensor element traces may form a portion of one dimensional linear sensor array or pixel locations in a two dimensional grid array capacitive gap biometric imaging sensor. The auxiliary circuit may provide pixel location selection or pixel signal amplification. The auxiliary circuit may be mounted on a surface of the display screen. The auxiliary circuit further comprising a separate pixel location selection controller circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2014Publication date: January 29, 2015Inventors: Paul WICKBOLDT, Gregory Lewis DEAN, Erik Jonathon THOMPSON, Steven MOLESA, Jaswinder JANDU, Patrick SMITH
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Patent number: RE45601Abstract: A fingerprint sensor with programmable sensing patterns is disclosed in one embodiment of the invention as including a fingerprint sensing circuit having multiple I/O interconnects. The I/O interconnects are configured to sequentially drive a plurality of fingerprint sensing elements. A memory device may be operably coupled to the fingerprint sensing circuit. A programmable data structure, such as a table, file, character string, numeric value, array, or the like may be stored in the memory device to designate a pattern for driving the fingerprint sensing elements. The fingerprint sensing circuit is configured to drive the fingerprint sensing elements according to the designated pattern. In selected embodiments, the fingerprint sensing elements may include transmitting elements, receiving elements, or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Inventors: Gregory Lewis Dean, Richard Alexander Erhart, Jaswinder Jandu, Erik Jonathon Thompson
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Patent number: RE45650Abstract: A fingerprint sensing circuit for reducing noise and parasitic capacitive coupling is disclosed in one embodiment of the invention as including a plurality of transmitting elements to sequentially emit a probing signal. A digital ground is provided to ground digital components in the fingerprint sensing circuit. A quiet ground, separate from and quieter than the digital ground, is provided to ground transmitting elements that are not transmitting the probing signal. Similarly, control logic is provided to connect, to the quiet ground, transmitting elements that are not transmitting the probing signal, while disconnecting, from the quiet ground, transmitting elements that are emitting the probing signal. The quiet ground helps to reduce the adverse effects of parasitic capacitive coupling and noise on the inactive transmitting elements.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2013Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Gregory Lewis Dean, Richard Alexander Erhart, Jaswinder Jandu, Erik Jonathon Thompson